When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
“I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
